Editor,
As I was driving up Menaul Boulevard Thursday evening, I realized traffic was moving slower than usual, and as I got closer to the Louisiana intersection, cars in the right lane were blocking traffic by cheering and honking at protesters holding sings depicting our current president as some sort of fascist and a monster. Judging by their signs (many which told me spelling wasn’t a strength for some of these bums) that they were protesting taxes and spending. They cried and shouted at the top of their lungs against government regulation and the recent health care bill that was passed last month. They whined like little children do when they get time out.
In all the commotion, I asked myself, where on earth were these Tea Party protests during the eight years that our constitution was spat on, when our military avoided paying for the health care of the troops that were sent off to two illegal, trillion-dollar wars, when Bush turned Clinton’s surplus into the monster debt we have now, and where were these morons when the Supreme Court stopped the legal recount in Florida 10 years ago?
Sure there were protests back then, but they didn’t get as much attention by the corporate media, who has a love affair with these tea bag rallies.
These people are against paying taxes to the government, yet they protest on the government-paid sidewalks, drive on the government-paid streets, shout under the government-paid telephone poles, and they write “Keep the government’s hands off my social security and/or Medicare!” Must I go on? If these people are so against paying taxes, then here’s some advice:
When your house gets robbed, don’t call the police, because they are funded by the state to protect its socialist laws. Find the robber yourself. When your house catches on fire, put out the flames yourself because the fire department is just another consequence of paying taxes. Drive across the fields and mountains, because those highways are socialist because the government paid for them. When an invading army marches into your neighborhood, don’t seek protection from the U.S. military, because they are pawns of the socialist government. And most importantly, even if you’re on your death bed, you must never accept social security or Medicare, because they are just as bad as Obamacare.
Now, would any sane person take that seriously?
Of course not. This goes to show that these rallies are nothing more than partisan and yes, contain some racial bigotry. I’ve seen the signs, read the blogs and listened to Rush Limbaugh; race has a whole lot to do with it.
Now I know there are some who don’t want more taxes. I understand that. None of us like to pay taxes. But that’s what we get for 30 years of selling out to corporate interests.
Abraham Assed
UNM student
